Residents in a Fresno neighborhood are looking for the owner of a vicious dog that mauled two dogs to death and seriously injured two other dogs. According to this Sept. 30 CBS news report, neighbors near First and Ashlan are posting flyers in the area to find the dog owner…
Katya Teresa Todesco, a 5-year-old Simi Valley girl died in a gruesome dog attack on Sept. 23 when she was playing in a neighbor’s yard and their pit bull attacked her. According to an article in the Ventura County Star, the dog attack occurred in a home on the 1000…
Wanda Michelle Lawver, 34, of Oroville was mauled by two pit bulls during a Sept. 22 dog attack in the yard of an acquaintance who had invited her over, the Oroville Mercury-Register reports. Lawver says the two pit bulls lunged at her as soon as she entered the yard –…
The family of Lena Dickerson is suing Disneyland claiming the toddler was attacked and bitten by a dog in the park’s petting zoo in 2006. According to this Fox News report, Lena, just 2 years old at the time, was mauled by a German Shepherd-Labrador Retriever mix on Oct. 3…
I read this fascinating account of how a plastic surgeon in Pasadena re-attached the index finger of a 2-year-old boy after it was bitten off by a neighbor’s dog. According to this story in the Pasadena Star News, the toddler had stuck his hand through a fence and a neighbor’s…
San Bernardino Sheriff’s deputies have arrested two men in connection with a Dec. 25, 2007 dog attack on 45-year-old Kelly Caldwell, who was mauled to death in Yermo by a pack of pit bulls. According to this news report, the two 23-year-old men – Jeffrey Dwayne King Jr. and John…
Huong Le, 71, of SeaTac, Washington, suffered severe injuries after she was viciously attacked Sept. 8 by two pit bulls that were running loose in her neighborhood. The Seattle Times reports that Le was walking down South 150th Street toward her home when she was mauled by the dogs. The…
City officials in Elk Grove, California, are considering how to handle troublesome animals, especially vicious dogs, on the heels of an Aug. 20 incident when the city’s police officers shot and killed one of two pit bulls that chased people in one neighborhood and attacked and injured another dog. According…
The city of Manteca, California, has passed a new law saying that if you own a pit bull breed you either have to get it fixed, qualify as a legitimate breeder of pit bulls or risk being charged with a crime or having the dog destroyed. According to a news…
A 4-year-old boy suffered severe facial injuries in a Chester, California dog attack, after a neighbor’s dog bit him, the Chester Editor reports. Avery Stout was reportedly playing with his older brothers in the neighborhood the afternoon of Aug. 12 when the attack occurred. Avery’s father Dan Stout said he…